China represents 23 percent of all watch-related searches, according to the WorldWatchReport, published by Digital Luxury Group.
But since the Regent Luxury Group assumed control in September 2006, the hotel had undergone an extreme psychic makeover, and management was asking for another chance.
"A strong luxury group will increase profits because it will allow Ford to sell to all consumer variants while retaining current Ford customers, " he said in a recent report.
While working with Gucci and France Luxury Group, I was in charge of helping the CEO to hire design talent, recruit new employees, public relations, marketing, wholesale and retail sales and licensing.
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The market for male fashion is growing twice as fast as that for women, according to Antoine Arnault, son of one of Europe's richest men and board member of luxury group LVMH.
Luxury industry market intelligence firm, Digital Luxury Group, recently released the results of the haute horlogerie category (18 brands) of the WorldWatchReport, based on an analysis of watch-related search queries typed into major global search engines.
The French luxury brands group, PPR , provides yet another example of a business beginning to take biodiversity seriously.
French luxury goods group, PPR, said Tuesday that it has acquired 100 percent of Brioni, the Italian menswear brand.
Mr Ripley, however, believes that there is still potential, underlined by French luxury goods group PPR buying US surf gear firm Volcom a few weeks ago.
As president and CEO of the country's pre-eminent luxury retail group, Iguatemi, the 40-year-old power player is supremely tuned in to the appetites of his country's growing class of affluent connoisseurs.
Opened in 1789 as a bakery and restaurant, today the 170-room Traube Tonbach is a member of the Relais and Chateaux luxury hotel group, and has expanded to include a spa and fitness centre, a 25-person chapel, indoor and outdoor pools, a wine bar and four restaurants.
LVMH, the world's biggest luxury-goods group, is off on holiday or accompanying his pianist wife on a concert tour.
Bernard Arnault, the chairman of France's luxury-goods group LVMH , proposed merging his company's wine and spirits business with those of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan .
PPR, a luxury-goods group which owns Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, is reported to have plans to move its entire executive committee to offices in London as soon as this summer.
LVMH, a successful French luxury-goods group whose customers are mostly women, has had just one female director over the past ten years: Delphine Arnault, daughter of the firm's chief executive and controlling shareholder.
Gianluca Brozzetti, who was brought in from luxury-goods group LVMH last year to run the show, is planning to expand Asprey from its 2 stores in London and New York to 40 worldwide within ten years.
The flagship of the ultra-luxury Peninsula Hotel Group, this icon has been famed for its white glove service, opulent public spaces, fine dining, and fleet of custom "Peninsula green" Rolls Royces since it opened in 1928.
The Wiliamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, for example, has been converted into luxury condos by a group in partnership with basketball Hall-of-Famer Magic Johnson.
Mr Edelman has his eye on the Crillon hotel, where stars and statesmen often stay in Paris, and the other jewels that make up the Concorde group of luxury hotels.
But it must be galling to know that after he spent nearly five vain years entangled with the French bureaucracy, Paris granted permission to Arnault to build a cultural complex to house the collection owned by his luxury goods giant, LVMH Group.
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Blackstone Real Estate Group's LXR Luxury Resorts has amassed 33 properties, along with 681 hotels, under the Extended Stay banner.
C. offers modest pickings when it comes to luxury digs, but Capella Hotel Group (run by former Ritz-Carlton President, Horst Schulze) aims to change that.
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"The property market is unlikely to see much improvement even in the second half of the year, " Huang Wenzai, chairman of luxury-property developer Star River Group, said.
Ms. Nazarian is one of the primary shareholders of Nazarian Enterprises, a venture capital group with investments in green energy, and SBE, an entertainment group that owns several luxury hotels, restaurants and nightclubs.
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At the end of March, Mercedes-Benz, the group's German luxury carmaker, revealed that it would recall 1.3m vehicles to fix electrical faults, further denting a reputation for reliability that has suffered in recent years.
And Gap's high-end line, Banana Republic, has signed a five-year deal with Safilo Group, an Italian luxury-eyewear firm, to sell Banana Republic-branded frames and sunglasses in Safilo's Solstice stores, other retailers and possibly in department stores, too.
Within the Chinese consumer market, I would like to focus on one group in particular, the luxury consumer market.
It is the city's only member of the Preferred Hotels Group, which caters to luxury and business-minded travellers, and is located in the popular Old Montreal neighbourhood.
The Vice President for Tissot, the affordable luxury watch brand owned by the Swatch Group, told Reuters in an interview last week that the company will make fewer watches to save on production costs rather than pass higher prices into clients.
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The U.S.-based luxury retail business was bought by the Canadian diamond mining group, Aber Corp.
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